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Epigram into Epic. Legal freedom, of course, does not abolish economic bondage. The heroine shacks up with a tenant farmer and watches a greedy landlord grind him down. Demoralized and dispossessed, the couple drifts to the big city and dissolves into a vast white slum remarkably like Harlem. At the climax, both are caught up in street riots and tandup strikes that gradually evolve into an effective drive for racial equality...
...down Carnegie Hall when the New York Philharmonic moved out distressed him because that meant one less stage big enough to seat 96 musicians. So he, Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium, to show him where all the wide open space...
Potential national leaders in Centro America are cut off from one another, he said. The project's job is to get the tenant farmers, the bishops, the mill-owners, the shop-owners, and the mayors "together in the same room," to solve their own problems, not to force an ideology on them...
...real estate market a few years ago, Murdock figured that it was time to move some of his money into broader areas. "We've learned something from the Zeckendorf experience," he says, referring to the financial woes of Manhattan's William Zeckendorf. When he wanted a bank tenant for one of his new buildings, Murdock went out and formed his own bank. In 1962 he walked into the board meeting of Central Investment Co., a holding company whose directors were feuding, and bought a major interest on the spot. He acquired two more banks and a title company...
...world is full of such beleaguered souls, looking, like Kafka's Joseph K, for someone authorized to cope. And naturally enough, this modern dilemma reaches an apogee of sorts in New York, the world's most modern city. There, the tenant who pays some $250 for his apartment is likely to find the price does not include a kindly landlord or even one who can be tracked down; faced with a leak that can't be stopped, and no one but his wife who cares, he must plunge into the morass of building regulations...